Steve Brock published his first collection of poetry The Night is a Dying Dog (Friendly St / Wakefield Press) in 2007, and received a grant from Arts South Australia for the completion of Double Glaze, published by Five Islands Press in 2013. He is the co-translator of the anthologies Desarraigo: 18 Poetas Transfronterizos (Nautilus Ediciones, 2021), and Poetry of the Earth: Mapuche Trilingual Anthology (Interactive Press, 2014). Steve completed a PhD in Australian literature at Flinders University in 2003. His work has featured in Best Australian Poems (Black Inc.) and has been published in journals in Australia and overseas. Steve published the chapbook Jardin du Luxembourg (Garron Publishing) in 2016. He was a guest author at Adelaide Writers’ Week and has been a judge for the South Australian Literary Awards. Steve’s most recent collection is Live at Mr Jake’s (Wakefield Press, 2020).
Margaret Fensom arrived in Adelaide from London by steamship in 1947 at the age of four, and has lived here ever since. She is widowed and has two adult daughters and three grandchildren. She completed a BA and, many years later, an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide. Margaret lives in a cottage in Norwood.
Murray Alfredson is a retired librarian and lecturer, and a former Buddhist Associate to the Multi-faith Chaplaincy at Flinders University. He graduated in German and History from the University of Melbourne and holds a research masters degree from the University of Wales. He began to write poetry in his undergraduate days and resumed in retirement. He has published poems and essays on Buddhism, spirituality and inter-faith matters in journals in Australia and the UK.